Quotes About Perception

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

The media has affected everybody's consciousness much more than most people will admit.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

The entertainment industry has an effect on social consciousness.

Whenever I speak, I talk to the collective consciousness of my audience.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

I read magazines and reviews. If consensus says something is good, I'll get it and see what's going on.

The United States cannot have the image of warmongers, with all the potential consequences it could have for our respective countries.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.

My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Social man regards all those by whom he is surrounded as enemies, or beings who may become such. He is ever on his guard lest his plain speaking should be willfully perverted, or should assume a meaning he never thought of, through the animosity or prejudice of the individual that hears him.

I don't know about changing my mind regarding The One-Man Band. I've always personally found him incredibly entertaining, which is one of the reasons why, in the past, I surrounded myself with guys like him. I think he's a complete buffoon, don't get me wrong, but personally, I find him very funny.